Rebuilding, Restoring, Renewing Puerto Rico
Regional : Mission Trip October 9 - 17, 2020
Cost: $800
Includes roundtrip airfare an meals, housing, transportation and building supplies in Puerto Rico
Regional : Mission Trip October 9 - 17, 2020
Cost: $800
Includes roundtrip airfare an meals, housing, transportation and building supplies in Puerto Rico
Join a team from the American Baptist Churches of Rhode Island for a week of volunteer service to help rebuild, restore, and renew the hurricane-ravaged island of Puerto Rico. Working through the American Baptist Home Mission Societies and Iglesias Bautistas de Puerto Rico, our team will offer gifts of time, energy, and hands-on work that are greatly needed for the restoration of churches, schools, missions, homes, communities, and lives.
- Since our team’s work will be primarily manual in nature, participants should be in good health and capable of lifting equipment and supplies; using ladders; and walking or standing for periods of time . Construction skills are not required, although licensed contractors are needed. Unskilled workers will be supervised and directed on the job. Depending on the needs in Puerto Rico at the time of our trip and the skills of team members, our work may range from major renovations and roof repair to fencing and demolition to painting, landscaping, and cleaning.
- Our team’s housing most likely will be in a dormitory located about an hour from San Juan. (There is a chance that accommodations will be sleeping bags on the floor of a building near a worksite.)
- All ages--from 14 years and older--are welcome to join our team. Congregations sending team members younger than age 18 must have at least one adult for every three teens.
To reserve a place on our regional mission team, please complete and submit all forms in the registration packet, along with a nonrefundable $200 deposit, by April 1. Payment of the remaining $600 will be due by August 5. A maximum of forty spaces will be available on a first-come-first served basis through April 1.
For more information, contact Rev. Kathryn Palen at kpalen@abcori.org or (401) 522-9731.
Download the Registration Packet
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American Baptist Churches of Rhode Island
54 Exeter Road
Exeter RI 02822
401.294.6318
54 Exeter Road
Exeter RI 02822
401.294.6318
